{"id":5229,"date":"2025-04-27T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/5229\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:13:09","slug":"shedeur-sanders-nfl-draft-prank-caller-revealed-as-jeff-ulbrichs-son-jax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/5229\/","title":{"rendered":"Shedeur Sanders&#8217; NFL draft prank caller revealed as Jeff Ulbrich&#8217;s son Jax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jax Ulbrich, the son of Falcons defensive coordinator and former interim Jets head coach Jeff Ulbrich, has apologized for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/25\/sports\/shedeur-sanders-nfl-draft-slide-punctuated-by-live-streamed-prank-call\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the prank call made to Shedeur Sanders<\/a> during the 2025 NFL Draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, along with several other prospects, received prank calls while they waited to be selected by an NFL team.<\/p>\n<p>Shedeur Sanders\u2019 bizarre NFL draft experience took another turn after the QB was prank-called during his Twitch stream. Shedeur Sanders\/Twitch<\/p>\n<p>Jax Ulbrich released a statement on social media on Sunday after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/27\/sports\/nfl-investigating-prank-call-that-reached-shedeur-sanders-private-draft-phone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the NFL was looking into the situation.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Friday night I made a tremendous mistake,\u201d the statement read. \u201cSheduer, what I did was completely inexcusable, embarrassing, and shameful. I\u2019m so sorry | took away from your moment, it was selfish and childish. I could never imagine getting ready to celebrate one of the greatest moments of your life and I made a terrible mistake and messed with that moment. Thank you for accepting my call earlier today, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1916584817933643816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> have also confirmed<\/a> in a statement that Jax, 21, had been responsible for the phone call and said that he had been able to get Sanders\u2019 number \u201coff an open iPad while visiting his parents\u2019 home and wrote the number down to later conduct a prank call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Jets interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich  Bill Kostroun\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Jax Ulbrich, the son of Falcons defensive coordinator and ex-Jets coach Jeff Ulbrich, apologized for his role in the prank call made to Shedeur Sanders during the draft. Jax Ulbrich\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The team denied that Jeff had any knowledge of what had happened and had only found out after it had occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jax Ulbrich, the son of Falcons defensive coordinator and former interim Jets head coach Jeff Ulbrich, has apologized&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2051],"tags":[254,7,2662,226,1917,255,2321,2097,6,16,17,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-5229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-jets","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jeff-ulbrich","11":"tag-jets","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-jets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkjets","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nfl-draft-2025","18":"tag-shedeur-sanders","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114411995489782489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}